The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-28
Religious Notes.

Cudworth: Things sullen and will be as
they are, whatever we think them wish them
to be.
Mrs. Whitney: We must rest in the rims
God puts us in.
Emerson: What is civilization answer,
the power Of good women.
Mr.. and Mrs L. d. Carpenter and Miss Leona
Ayers, of Seymour, Ind, have determined to go
10 Japan as missionaries their own charges
They are Baptists.
Happy the man. and happy he alone
He VINO can call to-day his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy work. for have lived to-day.
Dryden.
M. Henry They that did eat mama hungered
again, died at last, and with many of them God
was not we'll pleased; whereas, they that feed on
Christ by faith shall never hunger, and shall die
well pleased.
'1n outskirts of Thy kingdom vast
Father, the humblest spot give me;
Set me the lovliest task thou hast:
Let me req entant work for Thee
helen Hunt Jackson.
The late Rev. DIR. Raffies, of Liverpool, Eng
land, found the original manuscript of Bishop
Hebers hymn, From Greenland's Icy Mount
AIMS" the file of the printer for the society for
the propagation of the gospel. The hymn was
written at Wrexham, to be used in a service in
behalf of the society.
Why idly seek from outward things
The answer inward silence brings;
Why stretch beyond our proper sphere
And age, for that which lies so nearR
Why climb the far-off hills with pain.
nearer view of Heaven to gainl
You may be nearer to Christ than you think
Those men who went stumbling along the road
to Emmaus, weeping and mourning that their
Christ was gone, poured into his very the
tale of their bereavement. They told him of
their trouble-that they had lost Christi and
there he was talking with them. In the midst
of their deep grief thereIw their victory, and
they did not know it.
New York Evangelist: Every day religion is
the foundation of thorouehness which ia an
rharv ord for ri1thf r1lu hnpa
that slight their work. whether they make
shirts for p living o. sermons, build houses or
ships, raise foeks or families, will be some day
or other found out. We want clothes that viii
not rip, vessels that will not leak, and bridges
that will not break down. So want characters
that will stand temptation. and not snap asund-
under the sudden pressures of life.
Presbyterian: 1T is unfortunately the habit
of many people, and it is habit that formed
in youth, to finish only that part Of their work
that is in sight The part that is not seen ia left
with rough edges. or long stitches or if possible
work is only done that is seen. Years, centu-
ries ago, in Greece, there lived a sculptor whose
work teaches us lesson. A sculptor was
ployed to erect q statue in one of the Greciau
temples, and on being asked why he carved the
back part, which was to be set into the wall,
with as much pains as the 'front.' he replied, The
gods see 1t. >"
Andrew Fuller: When in any writing have
occasion to insert these passages "God willing"
"God lending me life," etc, / observe that can
scarce hold my hand from encircling these
words in parenthesis, if they were not es-
sental to the sentence, but may as well be left
out as put in. Whereas, indeed. they are not
only of the commission at large but so of the
quorum. that without them all the rest is moth
ing; wherefore, hereafter 1 will write these
words fully and fairly without any inclosure
about them. Let critics censure it for bad
grammar, 1 am sure 1t Is good divinity.
Bishop Simpson: The church must grope her
way into the alleys and courts of the city and
mp the broken staircasss, and into the bare
rooms, and beside the loathsome sufferer She
must go down into the pit with the miner, into
the forecastle with the sailor, into the with
the soldier, into the shop with the mechanic,
into the factory with the operative into the
field with che farmer, into the counting-room
with the merchant Like the air, the church
must press equally all surfaces of society; like
the sea- flow into every nook of the shore-line of
humanity, and like the sun, shine all things
foul and low, well fair and high; for she
was organized, commissioned and equipped for
the moral reform alton of the whole world.